I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Cisco in Feb 2012
Interview
Direct Hire with referral. Average experience. Asked some linked list questions and networking basic questions on network protocols. There were 2 interviewers. One of them was a tech-lead and asked me algorithm questions. The other was senior software engineer who asked pointer questions/ double pointer questions. And ended with questions like "how ping works?"
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Cisco (Londres, Inglaterra)
Interview
After simple talk with recruiter (no technical questions), I was given a not attented coding test to do. Then interview with 6 people - mostly technical, without any particularly difficult questions.